I
Introduction. Language and Violence:
The Civil War and Literary and Cultural Theory I
I Counting on the Battlefield:
Literature and Philosophy after the Civil War 24
2 Care and Creation:
The Anglo-American Moderists 69
3 Freedom, Luck, and Catastrophe:
Ernest Hemingway, John Dewey, and Immanuel Kant 107
4 Trauma and the Structure of Social Norms:
Literature and Theory between the Wars 131
SLanguage, Violence, and Bureaucracy: William Faulkner,
Joseph Heller, and Organizational Sociology 157
6 Total War, Anomie, and Human Rights Law 192
Notes 221
Index 301
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I
Introduction. Language and Violence:
The Civil War and Literary and Cultural Theory I
I Counting on the Battlefield:
Literature and Philosophy after the Civil War 24
2 Care and Creation:
The Anglo-American Moderists 69
3 Freedom, Luck, and Catastrophe:
Ernest Hemingway, John Dewey, and Immanuel Kant 107
4 Trauma and the Structure of Social Norms:
Literature and Theory between the Wars 131
SLanguage, Violence, and Bureaucracy: William Faulkner,
Joseph Heller, and Organizational Sociology 157
6 Total War, Anomie, and Human Rights Law 192
Notes 221
Index 301
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